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Best Halloween Cities You Should Market To
You may have heard of cities where people go all out for St. Patrick’s Day and Christmas, but these cities make the top list for Halloween.
October comes with Halloween, and different parts of the country have their own traditions. Regardless of what people prefer, we put together a guide of the top Halloween places and their cultures that you can market to.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
- Author: Washington Irving
- Book: Headless Horseman
- American Literature
- Classic Haunts
- Lantern Tours
- Washington Irving’s Cemetery AKA Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
- Great Jack O’ Lantern
- 300-year-old Phillipsburg Manor
- Lyndhurst Castle
- Spirits of the Mummy
- Frankenstein’s Monster
- Phantom of the Opera
- Old Dutch BuryingGround – one of the oldest cemeteries in the U.S.
- Van Cortlandt Manor
- Ghost of a Hessian trooper
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Jay Ghoul’s House of Curiosities
Salem, Massachusetts
- Salem Witch Trails of 1962
- High School History Class
- 26-people put on trial and sentenced to death
- Witch’s circle
- Witch House Museum
- Judge Jonathan Corwin Home
- New England town
- Count Orlock’s Nightmare Gallery
- The Festival of the Dead
- The Official Salem Witches’ Halloween Ball
- Victorian Mourning Clothes
- Elvira
- Mistress of the Dark
New Orleans, Louisiana
- Krewe of Boo Paraded
- French Quarter
- Downtown New Orleans
- 3D Halloween floats
- Voodoo Witcraft Festival
- Endless Night Vampire Ball
- Eerie Manchac Swamp
- America’s Most Haunted City
- “Cities of the Dead”
- Marie Laveau
- Royal Street
- Madame Delphine LaLaurie
Chatham, Massachusetts
- Kate Gould Park
- Pumpkins
- Edvard Munch’s painting – The Scream
- Oktoberfest
- Pumpkin Bowling
- Apple Bobbing
- Chatham’s B&Bs
St. Helens, Oregon
- Halloweentown
- Halloween Wonderland
- Debbie Reynolds
- Giant Pumpkin
- Kalabar
- Marnie Cromwell (Kimberly J. Brown)
- The Mystery Manor Kids Haunted House
- The Walk to the Underworld – giant rocks, sea creatures
Estes Park, Colorado
- Historic Stanley Hotel
- Stephen King – The Shinning Novel
- Shinning Ball
- Murder Mystery Dinner
- Jack Nicholson
- Elkhorn Ave. (main street)
- Zombie Crawl
- Halloween Dodgeball Tournament
- Trail Ridge, Ute Trail (9000 BCE)
- Game Drive Walls & Camps (3500 BCE)
Franklin, Tennessee
- Grave Matters: Stories Behind the Stones or the ghosts
- Ghosts of the Battlefield tour
- 1858 Lotz House
- Pumpkinfest
Romeo, Michigan
- Tillson Street
- Historic Village dating back to 1800s
- Terror on Tillson Street
- About 32 houses put on scary displays
- Bulldog Security
- 60,000 + candy Halloween handouts
- Fundraising
Charleston, South Carolina
- Visit Old Mansions
- The Old City Jail Tour
- Noteworthy Criminals (1802-1939)
- Pirates
- Civil War Prisoners
- The Charleston Woodlands